review 1: This short book about Ingrid Ricks and the shocking diagnosis of Retinitis Pigmentosa( the degenerative eye disease that will eventually render her blind) she receives at age 37 , was of special interest to me for several reasons. First of all this author grew up very near where ...

review 1: This lovely and engrossing memoir deserves its place alongside Tobias Wolf's This Boy's Life as an exemplar of the American coming-of-age personal narrative. The young Ingrid sustains a moving struggle to attain maturity amid the dysfunctional role models of her parents and stepf...